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Jefe en daño de Ramón; uno de esos abusos de autoridad que disgustan de la más honrosa carrera; una arbitrariedad, en fin, hizo desear al Teniente de cazadores abandonar las filas de sus hermanos, al amigo dejar al amigo, al liberal pasarse a la facción, 20 al subordinado matar a su Teniente Coronel....—¡Buenos humos tenía Mazzepa , [16-5] Ramón para aguantar insultos e injusticias ni al lucero Mazzepa ,
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
The resolution under discussion explicitly avows the terms on which we will consent again to renew our intercourse with Europe.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress
The narrowness of her fortune compelled her to do so; but she was much more strongly impelled by the fear that the Queen’s friendship, after having raised up dangerous enemies against her, might abandon her to their hatred, and to the regret of having lost the august favour of which she was the object.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
See the facts upon this subject collected and discussed in the instructive dissertation of L. Oettinger, Die Vorstellungen der Griechen und Römer ueber die Erde als Himmelskörper, p. 38; Freiburg, 1850.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote
At a moment when the churches of God enjoyed unbroken peace you raised up dissensions, enmities, and scandals.
— from Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
The narrowness of her fortune compelled her to do so; but she was much more strongly impelled by the fear that the Queen's friendship, after having raised up dangerous enemies against her, might abandon her to their hatred, and to the regret of having lost the august favour of which she was the object.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 3 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
The main body of the party rallied under Douglas, excepting a serious defection in the north; on the other hand, the Whigs in a body declared against him, but were weakened by a scattering desertion in the center and south.
— from Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by John G. (John George) Nicolay
Et dicunt quod terre et tenementa eidem Johanni remanencia ultra donacionem et assignacionem predictas sufficiunt ad consuetudines et seruicia tam de predicta placea sic data quam de aliis terris et tenementis sibi retentis debita facienda, et ad omnia alia onera que sustinuit et sustinere consueuit.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little
In this same region, upon Der el Arba’in , one finds the grave of Jesse, King David’s father.
— from Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) by Karl May
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